Wine tasting visit at Château de Gevrey Built in 1015 on a Gallo-Roman villa and already surrounded by vines, meadows and sources, Château de Gevrey has often been devastated and plundered, partly burnt but restored many times, it still has the austere Roman Burgundian architecture character with rare concessions to a country Gothic charm. As well the big square tower whose architecture of defence is intact and the small one are built quite similar. The old rampart-way around is surmounted by a gallery from where one discovers the panorama of all the vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin. The walls keep, here and there, the print of centuries

Suggested Sightseeing in Lyon, gourmet Capital of France.
Capital of Gaul under the Roman Empire, major center of culture and trading during the Renaissance, strong industrial breeding ground in the nineteenth century, Lyon has become a large European metropolis, benefiting from the influences that have swept across its beautiful landscape. Now included on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Lyon is categorized along with prestigious cities such as Venice, Prague, or Saint Petersburg.
From the Roman city of Lugdunum to the city of today, two millenniums have left their mark in terms of an outstanding architectural heritage, at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers : Fourvière, with its basilica and Gallo-Roman ruins, the Renaissance district of Old Lyon, which is centered around Saint Jean Cathedral, the presqu'île (peninsula between the two rivers), which was shaped by the great classical and imperial era, along with the slopes of the Croix-Rousse, where the silk industry thrived